Did you ever wonder what happened to all the other emotions, besides the five core ones, in Pixar’s Inside Out? It wasn’t just 11-year-old Riley who was governed only by Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust – the feelings represented by characters in the film – but her parents, too.

Now director Pete Docter has revealed the concept art behind the emotions which were considered for a place in the beloved box-office smash, but eventually didn’t make the grade. Among them were Envy, Greed, Pride, Love, Hope, Guilt, Shame and Embarrassment.

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26 emotions in all were brought to the table, but the majority of these were cut simply because they overlapped: Despair, Depression and Gloom would have shared lots of the same territory, and it might have proven difficult to suitably differentiate the characteristics of Pride, Greed and Envy. Ultimately, Docter was happy with the five that he ended up with:

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"When the film is done, you look at the characters and go, 'Of course, these are the emotions'," the director told USA Today. "But we tried a lot of things before we got to where we ended on the screen.”

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When the research stage of the filmmaking process began in 2009 the movie’s creators at Pixar consulted scientists, believing that “there [was] going to be one correct answer to the number of emotions. But some [scientists] said 17, another said four. A couple of scientists said zero – that emotions are sort of an illusion. There was no real unity. That was good because we were able to decide for ourselves."

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Some of the contenders (which didn’t even get to the concept art stage) were reasonably complex: one finds it hard to imagine Schadenfreude and Ennui coming across clearly to much of the film’s demographic.

This concept art will feature as bonus material on the Blu-ray release of Inside Out, which comes out today in the US (the UK release date is November 23). Though this use of the characters reduces the likelihood of their appearing in subsequent sequels, it would have been interesting to see these characters – or variants of them – emerging as Riley grows older and gets to grips with more complex emotions.

Inside Out is available on Disney/Pixar 3D Blu-ray, DVD and digital on November 23